182 SERINUS CITRINELLOIDES. 



in flocks, keeping to open ground and often seen in plouglied 

 fields." 



An egg from Dongola in Mr. Nebrkorn's collection is 

 described as bluisli-white with a few distinctly marked brown 

 dots ; 0-64 X 0-5. 



Serinus citrinelloides. 



Serinus citrinelloides, Eiipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 95, pi. 34, fig. 1 (1835- 



1844) Abyssinia. 

 Chrysomitris citrinelloides, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 229 (1888) 

 Kilimanjaro, Senafe ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genev. 1888, p. 274 Shoa ; 

 Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 367 Kilimanjaro ; Hartert, Kat. Vog. Mus. 

 Senck. p. 58 (1891); Eeichen. Yog. D. O. Afr. p. 197 (1894); 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 249 (1896) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 134 ; id. 

 and Eeid, Ibis, 1901, p. 624 S. Abyssinia. 

 Fringilla melanops, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 92 Abyssinia. 

 Chrysomitris melanops, Pisch, J. f. 0. 1885, p. 136 Arusha, Naiivasha ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 229 (1888) ; Eeichen. Vog. D. 0. Afr. 

 p. 197 (1894) Karagiue, Bukoba ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 618 Nancli. 

 Serinus scotops (nee Sundev.) Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 22 Zomba ; 1898, 



p. 553 Nyasaland. 

 Adidt male. Upper parts yellowish green, with black shaft- stripes to 

 the feathers of the crown, hind neck, mantle and upper tail-coverts ; rump 

 uniform. Wings brownish black with broad yellow edges to the coverts 

 and inner secondaries, the lesser coverts greener like the back, the median 

 and greater coverts forming moderately distinct diagonal yellowish bands 

 on the wings; primary coverts and most of the quills narrowly edged with 

 yellow ; under surface of quills dusky brown with partial buffy brown inner 

 margins ; axillaries and under wing-coverts bright yellow, with a few dusky 

 bars on the pinion ; tail-feathers brownish black, with narrow greenish 

 yellow edges. Head with a very narrow frontal-band, front half of sides 

 of head and a broad chin-spot black ; eyebrows bright yellow ; ear-coverts 

 olive ; remainder of the throat, breast, thighs and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow, washed with olive on sides of crop, and streaked with black on the 

 flanks. "Iris brown; bill dark; legs black." Total length 4-7 inches, 

 culmeu 0-4, wing 2-65, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-6. J, 30. 11. 99. Nairobi 

 (Delamere). 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having no black on the head 

 and no yellow eyebrow ; forehead like the crown but slightly yellower ; 

 sides of head uniform olive; chin ashy buff; throat and sides of body 

 strongly striped with black. " Iris brown ; bill dark; legs brown." Total 



